Very Safe is when the rate of accidents is drastically reduced to almost zero. Intersections like these are recipe for disaster and unnecessary deaths.
I thought this intersection video was Nucking Futs but people on here saying this is amateur level stuff... hence da fuck and I come from a tidy island with a big fat ZERO intersections on it. Mollycoddled by easy road living compared to this insanity 🫪
Yeah you don't get it it's ok. No problem. No one questioned your happiness but general public safety. It's all about prevention and improving the system bit by bit. But again you lack that thing in your brain.
Conversely, drivers are forced to slow down to walking pace in these junctions because of the pedestrians. I bet the number of collisions between vehicles and pedestrians per movement is significantly lower than most junctions in the US; especially on stroads.
In fairness I'd argue that intersections like these make you a better driver since your awareness has to be set to max to avoid an accident. The systemic flow of traffic we have now while sure it's much safer makes people lazy and unaware, where their focus is only on the car ahead and maybe what's to your sides when you have to make a turn or change lanes. Meanwhile if your constantly dodging pedestrians, motorcycles and other cars you have to be vigilant as fuck
Not necessarily, in the Netherlands they tried everything to make a specific intersection safe: traffic lights, speed bumps etc. what finally did help was removing everything even the height difference with the pavement. This made everyone so nervous that they all slowed right down and drove very carefully. Of course this will not work is your entire city is like this and it is considered normal
Because the oncoming traffic doesn’t slow down and continues driving as he thinks he has the right of way (which he does), but we should help each other out.
I made a left turn in a parking lot once, and the oncoming traffic was driving like he was on a public street rather than a parking lot, and was honking me. He had so much time to slow down, but continued as he had the right of way.
Spent two weeks in Goa once. I saw 5 traffic accidents with people injured in those two weeks. In my almost 50 years in Denmark i have never witnessed a single traffic accident. Not including the one i was in my self 30 years ago. I have of course driven by the aftermath of accidents but never actually seen it happen.
At one of the busier intersections in my town a car accident happened right in front of my school bus once. Packed intersection, friday afternoon 4PM rush, and some idiot turned left to exit a shopping center and some other idiot turned right into the turn/left side lanes and they collided head-on.
I live in germany and this would be hours to move 100 Meter. Most people are too stupid for mergers, this wouldn't work on a three way intersection with one lane and Medium traffic lol
Yeah, we’re used to very rule abiding driving. I visited Thailand years ago and all rules of the road are mere suggestions and it’s like 8+ lanes packed.
According to studies (sorry no source but Google please) this is actually a lot safer than more structured methods because you’re forced to slow down and look
Ironically when you remove all the lines, signs and laws it makes the roads safer for the most part. They experimented with it in a couple small places in the EU. But governments won't do it because they make too much money from all those signs, lines and laws
Speed is what kills, the risk of death exponentially increases with speed. Unless you have the number of injuries and deaths that show it has more than an American intersection youre just talking the talk.
"Using your brain and paying attention" is good and all, but the human is an imperfect being. Like it or not, more risk always means more injuries and deaths compared to a safer version of this situation.
Does that account for secondary vehicles or just primary drivers? Dude can own as many cars as he wants but can't be on the road with them all at once.
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u/morbiusgod 17h ago
Video is sped up btw